1. bailiff - Noun
2. Bailiff - Proper noun
Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power/ of custody or care are intrusted.
A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.
An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionary26. We pray that no manner of person having a manor of his own, shall be no other lord’s bailiff but only his own. Source: Internet
A bailiff from the Law courts Undersheriff department, Joseph Korvoma told that all due eviction and demolition process was followed and that they had been stubborn to quit. Source: Internet
Hastings Town Hall By a Charter of Elizabeth I in 1589 the bailiff was replaced by a mayor, by which time the town's importance was dwindling. Source: Internet
He wrote in a letter in 1880 to professor Bjerknes in Valle, that he was told by locals that one of Abel's sons was born at former bailiff Marstrand's house in Nedstrand. Source: Internet
Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a "bailiff, jurats, and commonalty". Source: Internet
His family was a quite wealthy peasant family according to the local bailiff 's accounting. Source: Internet